I’m going to keep this short. Collectively, most of 2016 was spent talking about how 2017 will be better. But if we learned anything, it was that how things have normally worked (ie. elections, sigh) seem to not be working quite like they should; like we have come to expect them too. The world is …
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There was an interesting blog post by Duncan Green, Strategic Advisor for Oxfam GB (http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/where-has-oxfam-got-to-on-trying-to-measure-the-difficult-stuff-empowerment-resilience-and-learning-from-the-results/) late in 2014 which raises that touchy issue of measuring the ‘hard stuff: empowerment and resilience.’ We all, in some way, encounter this problem in our work. We tend to monitor in numbers, with some qualitative data attached for ‘contextual …
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Melanie Phillips Introduction Earlier this year I introduced the Speaker’s Conundrum, a problem which goes as such: Some time ago I was asked by the Speaker of a local government to give legal advice about its Standing Orders. After asking him for a copy of these Standing Orders, I was promptly informed that “oh, …
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There is a famous proverb which says something along the lines of ‘Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will never starve.’ That may be. Or perhaps not. It is a good theory, but does it hold true once all of the practicalities …
